Saturday, October 6, 2007

Last Saturday Night in Canada.... What do you do??

So today was our last Saturday here in Canada for a while. How long? as we've mentioned, we're not sure, but it will probubly be at least a year, or two or ten. This is a big thing, and we wanted to make sure that we did everything that we want to do here before we go. We have talked about going to a few of our favourite restaurants, seeing some good friends, maybe bowling.... and more. So, what do you do on a Saturday night with 2 kids?????

First off let me inform you that we all have started practicing a very old tradition from Latin America. Siestas! Yes Siestas, otherwise known as NAPS! It's great, half the time it's only the boys, but the other half of the time Chris and I join them. I love it. It's refreshing, and really makes staying up late easier. What does this have to do with tonight? It's part of my story.

After a beautiful day watching the Eskimos on TV, the boys went for there siesta. They woke around 5:15pm, and Chris and I hadn't thought of a thing for dinner. I was hoping to go to a restaurant that Chris and I went to last night (great butter chicken and amazing mushroom soup - a fav of Callym's!) But Chris didn't want that - honestly it's not that cheap, and plus, we have been going out for dinners at least 5 times a week!
SPOILT!
Chris was trying to convince the boys to have KFC. I don't mind having that before we go, but not the night before Thanksgiving dinner. Yum, Thanksgiving dinner! OK, so what.... We thought about a movie, pizza, actually buying groceries at safeway (what the heck?), and more. Then at 5:45 we decided! I yelled out to everyone,

PUT ON YOUR OILER JERSEY'S WE'RE GOING TO THE GAME!

yahoo, we threw on our jersey's and jumped in the car. Chris grabbed some cash, and I ran out to see what the price of scalper tickets were going for. (Chris actually checked online, and the game was sold out so this was our only option) One guy was going to give me a 'great deal' for 2 seats 225$ each! AHH, this was going to be a little more expensive then the restaurant. After running around looking, I bought some cheap seats. We parked the car and ran to the arena. We made it within the first 5 minutes of play, and it was a great game. Besides beating the flyers 5 to 3, our kids were great! (the guy behind us mentioned this, he said we should write a book on how to raise kids this well, he said that he wouldn't dare bring his 20month old to a game because he doesn't have the patience, and his boy wasn't as well behaved as ours! Very nice compliment). We had hotdogs, pop, ice-cream and yelled our minds out! Fun Fun Fun. This was by far the best way I could ever think of to spend our Last Saturday in Canada.